Download or read book Church as Politeia written by Christoph Stumpf and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume Church as Politeia comprises fifteen papers which were presented at a German-British Research Colloquium of the Becket Institute in Oxford. In these papers the political self-understanding of Christianity is analyzed in its historical development from various denominational perspectives. The authors of these contributions are theologians, lawyers, philosophers and historians from Germany and Great Britain.